Recent Posts - Security

stop disabling SELinuxSeriously, stop disabling SELinux.Learn how to use it before you blindly shut it off.Every time you run setenforce 0, you make Dan Walsh weep.Dan is a nice ...
Posted Feb 15, 2019, 7:52 AM by Chris G

JSON Web TokenWhat is JSON Web Token?JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as ...
Posted Jun 14, 2018, 6:57 AM by Chris G

GnuPG - The GNU Privacy GuardGnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP). GnuPG allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications ...
Posted May 12, 2018, 8:27 AM by Chris G

Boxcryptor - Security for your CloudBoxcryptor for IndividualsBoxcryptor encrypts your sensitive files and folders in Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and many other cloud storages. It combines the benefits of the most user friendly cloud ...
Posted May 12, 2018, 8:24 AM by Chris G

Inspec - Compliance as codeInSpec is an open-source testing framework for infrastructure with a human-readable language for specifying compliance, security and other policy requirements. When compliance is code, you can integrate automated ...
Posted May 1, 2017, 9:58 AM by Chris G

Web Image Compression - Squoosh!Squoosh is an image compression web app that allows you to dive into the advanced options provided by various image compressors.The app is available for in-browser conversion at ...
Posted Nov 12, 2018, 6:03 PM by Chris G

CentOS Encrypted Incremental Backup for AWSThere are many documented solutions available on the internet for achieving full and incremental backups for CentOS servers to AWS S3 or even to AWS Glacier. Most of them rely ...
Posted Nov 14, 2014, 5:51 PM by Chris G

Tutorial - High Availability for AWSHigh Availability for Amazon VPC NAT Instances: An ExampleThis article provides all the necessary resources, including an easy-to-use script,and instructions on how you can leverage bidirectional ...
Posted Sep 10, 2014, 12:26 PM by Chris G

Binder - launch Jupyter notebooks from GitHubTurn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooksHave a repository full of Jupyter notebooks? With Binder, open those notebooks in an executable environment, making your code immediately ...
Posted Feb 4, 2019, 8:42 AM by Chris G

Python ClickClick is a Python package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way with as little code as necessary. It’s the “Command Line Interface Creation Kit”. It ...
Posted Jul 11, 2018, 6:52 AM by Chris G

OpenSSL Certificate AuthorityThis guide demonstrates how to act as your own certificate authority (CA) using the OpenSSL command-line tools. This is useful in a number of situations, such as issuing server ...
Posted Jun 29, 2016, 1:36 PM by Chris G